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... 8211; I had 4 middle aged Japanese women tourists help dress me as well as a young man!!! I tried my best to put on my most fierce Samurai warrior face!!! After a lunch break we headed to the castle gardens and then cycled along the river back to our hotel.

Now I will digress here to tell you about a random act of kindness that came our way. Brad had developed red spots on his face (nowhere else on his body) that weren’t going away with a few new ones popping ...

... we think he did but our Japanese is not good enough to understand everything, hihihi) that he could not cut our hair. So we left, went back to the hotel, had dinner. After dinner, we went back to the main street in our yukata, as everybody does. You can see from the yukata at which hotel people are staying. Our hotel has a green yukata with waves (the one I am wearing), some others are blue ...

... so with some time to spare, i went for a walk and noticed that a lot of people were walking on the streets in their yukatas (cotton kimono used in ryokans) going from one bath house to the other. Gezellig ;) Dinner was as we are used in Ryokans: lots of small dishes like soup, sashimi, meat, salad, and rice of course. Good food :) In the meantime, our room with table had been switched into a room with futon beds: good ...

... br> We ordered some sashimi and salad, and Chris ordered a bowl of what we expected to be deep fried chicken. When we bit into it, however, we weren't so sure! It either was chicken, but bits of chicken ligaments and tendons, or bits of crunchy squid!

6 May 2015

Today we needed to head to Imabari, 40 minutes north-east of Matsuyama, but as the train journey was relatively short and Imabari is quite small, we decided to stay ...

... as well as our aching muscles complaining about it! It was now time to get to Imabari, a city on our new main island of Shikoku where we could drop the bikes off. On the way down we passed where we tied the dog up and he was gone. Hope he wasn't dognapped! We were exhausted and hungry so imagine our joy when we passed one of the cheap sushi train places. We quickly turned back and had a well earned and delicious load of sushi. Then we carried on and found the bike drop ...